User's Guide to Style: Voluminous Skirt

The season's most versatile skirt is full and feminine. We asked five women to tackle the trend.

Fall fashion is giving us an inflated sense of self: On the Donna Karan, Céline, and Jil Sander runways, coats, dresses, and skirts assumed oversize proportions. Our favorite way to wear the season's voluminous silhouette is as a full skirt, such as Donna Karan's surprisingly flattering one. Here, five women make the amped-up shape fit perfectly. Donna Karan New York cotton skirt, $1,095, at Donna Karan New York stores.

REBECCA GOODMAN

30, director of public relations, Equinox fitness clubs

Goodman set out to streamline: "The shape is timeless and feminine—I wanted to see if it could also be sexy," she says. She tried on a leather jacket but ended up knotting a blue chambray shirt to show the tiniest bit of skin. "The material is lighter, which makes for a nice contrast with the skirt's heavy fabric," she says.

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"I wanted something that was easy and fun, so I tied a Madewell chambray button-down over an Urban Outfitters bustier."